Hips Quotes - Page 25

• Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.

  LeCrae

  Sports, Ethnicity, Games

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• Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

  Yelawolf

  Thinking, Expression, Hip Hop

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• When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Creating, Hip Hop

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• I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

  Stephen King

  Father, Home, Kids

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.

  Nas

  Moving, Hip Hop, Important

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'.

  Nas

  Song, Confused, Awards

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

  Nas

  People, Focus, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

  Morris Chestnut

  Workout, Work Out, Hip Hop

  "Morris Chestnut "Not Easily Broken". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.

  Prince Royce

  Crazy, Rap, Rocks

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• Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

  Assata Shakur

  Issues, People, Hip Hop

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• Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

  Iceberg Slim

  Appreciate, Hip Hop, Culture

  Meraki Mag Interview, www.merakiafrica.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

  Mel Brooks

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Song, College

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• You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Order, People, Hip Hop

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• I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: sunsetintherearview.com

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• I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

  Doc Brown

  Successful, Giving, Hip Hop

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.

  Robert Greene

  Knowing, Hip Hop, Feelings

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• Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

  Robert Greene

  Hip Hop, Hops

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• Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.

  One9

  Art, Integrity, Technology

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• People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.

  Atul Gawande

  Fall, Blood, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

  Barry Hannah

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and s - t like that I would throw headphones on and close my room door, when I'm mad I just close the door with my girl and f - k her. In so many different ways hip-hop has been like my girl and it's always been there to hold me down.

  Joell Ortiz

  Girl, Writing, Doors

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

  Josh Peck

  Writing, Hip Hop, Graffiti

  "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview, collider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

  Derek Luke

  Rap, Mirrors, Hip Hop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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